Slop.

sadly, i've seen similar sentiment among an unfortunate number of western leftists. the anti-jewish portion of the nazi genocide, despite not even constituting the majority of their crimes, is portrayed as an evil in its own league.

other things, even ones with higher casualty numbers and perpetrated by the same scum, may perhaps be compared to the shoah but never allowed to reach it in terms of cultural significance in the west.

the slavic or romani victims or the political prisoners who suffered the same or even worse abuses in the same camps by the same fascist parasites don't get to be immortalized in western literature or film or music or other arts.

despite the fact, that racism against slavic peoples was (read: is) at the very core of hitlerite ideology, westerners never as much as acknowledge it. instead, they celebrate as thousands, if not millions of slavic people die in a conflict caused by western capital. instead of at least feeling shame for flooding all of those countries with blood, they instead have been spreading hatred and harmful stereotypes to such an extent that they don't even register doing it anymore. i don't even want to mention their hideous lies about the red army.

despite the fact, that the hitlerites successfully exterminated essentially all of the romani population throughout much of western and central europe and came dangerously close to reaching this goal in eastern europe, anti-romani racism seems now to be just as common as life itself.

how come that the suffering of jews is considered the crime of crimes, while everything else the fascists did gets either ignored, excused away or even celebrated?

First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I'm not Jewish. Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I am not Jewish. Then they came for the Jews, and there was no one left to speak out for them.

Makes me wonder why they'd make such a shitty, repetitious poem if there's nothing to learn from it

Zionist can fuck off today, the sacrifice of the Soviet people will never be forgotten

Jewish supremacy ideology includes erasing anyone else who was mass murdered

This is the shit that infuriates me. It's driven by a strictly fascist ideology that is designed to reintegrate Naziism into the public consciousness whilst cordoning off a little garden labelled "judaism✨ :)" to afford itself freedom from associative guilt.

You know when I learned the extent that trans people were murdered too during the Holocaust (and then that I was trans), it deepened my reverence and empathy for all the victims of the Nazis. Suffering is not something diluted by the inclusion of other victims.

Just like now as I face genuine persecution, I feel immense empathy and solidarity with other targeted groups, like refugees, Palestinians, First Nations etc

all victims of the Second World War

People generally separate the Holocaust from "all victims" of the second World War already, but it shows how cowardly these people are that they don't mention the fact that when people say "Holocaust" they generally mean "the millions of civilians mass murdered with industrial processes within the borders of Nazi-controlled territory", which includes many millions of people who were not Jews. Instead they try to skip over these Holocaust victims and jump straight to everyone who died in the war, a definition that nobody is using.

compare it to contemporary events

Oh so I guess "never again" means "this will never happen again, don't worry about it, don't think about it". Eat my ass.

This Holocaust Remembrance Day, please join us in a special form of Holocaust denialism.

Jews were the plurality of who was killed, but they were not the majority. To erase the broad spectrum of the other 8 million people killed during the Holocaust is to erase an aspect of Nazi ideology and it's desire to totally remake European society into it's imagine of German dominance.

The real kicker is that bit about “contemporary comparisons” which makes me ask why even bother having historical educations if you can’t apply the lessons of the past but that’s just me

I suppose now is a good time to recommend Norman Finkelstein's The Holocaust Industry

Be me, a non-Jewish survivor of a Nazi death camp

"Any attempt to dilute the holocaust, strip it of its Jewish specificity, or compare it to contemporary events is unacceptable on any day"

Thanks, guess I'll just dump myself in the trash

Zionists want the word to only be about jews because if jews started including memory of others in holocaust memory then Israelis might become less fucking awful, and jews elsewhere in the world might become less likely to be racist zionists.

6 million Poles were killed too, it's just that there's a 3 million overlap (Polish Jews) and there were more Poles to start with. And that's not even getting into the Romani, LGBT, Disabled, and anyone to the left of a modern Statesian Democrat. At least 12 million murdered in an industrial fashion. And that's all before getting into the war dead.

Fun fact, bit of tension between Israel and Poland about all that too.

If you acknowledge other Holocaust victims people might expect you to defend or improve their lives somehow.

On Holocaust Memorial Day, it is especially hurtful, disrespectful and wrong.

Okay thanks for telling me, now I know the best time to say that to you Zionist fucks 😆

It is correct in terms of how people have used and still use the word that the Holocaust refers specifically to the 6 million Jews who were murdered and not to the other victims of genocide and the war. There strangely isn't an all-encompassing term for all the genocide that the Nazis did afaik, though you can refer to some of the different subsections of it with various names like Aktion T4 (the "euthanasia" campaigns against the disabled and mentally ill), and Generalplan Ost sometimes gets used as a shorthand for the genocide on the eastern front.

Edit: I do agree that the phrasing of this message at least suggests reinforcing an idea of Holocaust exceptionalism, the idea that the Holocaust was a unique evil that it's improper to compare other genocides to, which is obviously an extremely backwards and chauvinist attitude that is harmful to the whole of human civilization.

Karen